It’s in! After a few long months of guessing, our Fontbook finally arrived. Now we can peruse the many useful (and many more useless) fonts of the world. In all honesty, this will be a really large asset when trying to come up with new type combinations for our clients, be it rebranding, publication design or otherwise. An added bonus – we get exposed to new font names, such as Wolfdance.
I have been following Nicholas Felton for a few years now. His unique ability to organize information, nevermind catalogue it, often leaves me speechless. I’ve purchased one of his Annual Reports before, but his newest report is something else entirely. Already sold out (in advance of printing of course) this Annual Report is printed on French Durotone paper and letterpressed by Swayspace (Brooklyn, NYC). The report was limited to 2000 copies, but have no fear, you can sign up to be notified when this item is back in stock.
The Steamroller Festival is a free printmaking event on Saturday, June 26th where Martha Street Studio hires a paving machine to drive over giant, inked linocuts (carved by their members and anyone else who wants to join in) pressing them into oversized paper. There will also be tools and linoleum on hand for people to carve up on the day of the event. And they’ve also got free linocutting workshops on offer at the Studio every week leading up to the Steamroller Festival, on Wednesdays from 6–9pm (June 2, 9, 16 & 23) all taught by Jeanette Johns. In addition, there are sheets of lino at Martha Street Studio (also completely free and sized at 32″ x 39″) for anyone to pick up on the condition that they print on June 26th.
With the recent release of Adobe Creative Suite 5, I’m sure there are many designers who may be sharing Tyler’s sentiment. (Just to clarify for those of you who are new to our blog, or unfamiliar with our sense of humour, when we’re not being sarcastic we’re seriously exaggerating the truth.)
Now obviously I’m not a copy-writer, and I certainly hope our wedding this coming June does not catch fire, but I’m more than proud to announce that our wedding invites have made their way onto the Studio on Fire blog – Beast Pieces! I decided I am so proud that I’d attempt a little cross-blog-pollination by posting our invites to this blog as well! (photos courtesy of Studio on Fire) Now you can get all the printing details at Beast Pieces for yourself, but I’ll mention that this job was described to me as a “nightmare on press” for it’s registration demands and large areas of solid colour. Good thing we had nothing but faith in the talented staff at Studio on Fire, and now, nothing but praise!
Donna sent me this link the other day with the subject “More of a Tyler blog.” How right she was. Letterhead isn’t something I’ve held close to my heart before, quite often I view it within a certain lens and approach it from a clean, informative angle. There are some gems, however, on the Letterheady Blog that make me want to re-investigate my thinking.
I’ve been working up to this post for some time now. As an avid (or maybe rabid) Olympics supporter and a general sports enthusiast, I’ve been exceptionally proud of the way Canada has embraced these Olympics and the way our athletes have performed under pressure. I’ve been even more impressed, however, with the way Vancouver has branded itself for these games. Perhaps our success over the past two days (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) has put a little extra glow in my heart, but I can’t help but tip my hat to those responsible for executing the vision for these Winter Games. At first I was only moderately excited at the Vancouver 2010 brand. I perceived it’s vector illustration style as less-than-original. Seeing it’s full execution, however, I’m extremely appreciative of the attention to detail. Look no further than the green-and-blue coloured houses of the curling rinks, Canada Hockey Place with it’s green and blue painted stairs, or the halfpipe’s green and blue markings. The placement of the cameras has been addressed with extreme attention to detail as well. The gates of the downhill events have been carefully planned for impact with the home audience, likewise with the Bobsled track placement of “Vancouver 2010″ on prominent turns and Canada Hockey Place displaying the Olympic rings on top of the net for the camera to broadcast to the public. On top of this, I’ve found the typography to be excellent as well. The type chosen has been clean and clear, with one of the best examples being the numbers on Speed Skater’s helmets. Here are a few examples of branding done well, courtesy of Boston.com.
Another awesome quote, this time courtesy of Clients from Hell.
I found a link to Pentagram’s type quiz on Design Sponge this morning (while reading her post about Parliament, who we blogged about a few weeks back). The quiz determined that I am Archer Hairline, a charming slab-serif typeface designed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Tyler is Architype Van Doesburg, the geometric sans-serif typeface originally designed by Theo Van Doesburg, co-founder of the DeStijl art movement. In my opinion the results were bang on. If you’re looking for something to do, head over and see what type you are. (password: character)
Cool, simple sketch-book-like blog for type lovers. Or friends.
